parinfer

jurjanpaul 2025-10-10T15:26:20.223959Z

@chrisoakman Do you know what happened to your version of the VS Code Parinfer extension? It seems to have disappeared, I noticed when configuring a new/temporary laptop today. (Also applies to the fork by ‘kress95’). (The original lacks ‘smart mode’ and another fork messes with ‘auto indent’, at least in my experience.)

Chris Oakman 2025-10-11T12:57:21.173789Z

I don't know. I have not updated that repo in several years and am not a regular user of VS Code. To the best of my knowledge, it should still work for Indent Mode unless the VS Code API has changed (which is very possible!) I was never able to get Smart Mode implemented due to limitations of the VS Code plugin API, which was very annoying. I wish there was a great Parinfer experience in VS Code.

Chris Oakman 2025-10-11T13:00:45.511199Z

In general, I have limited time for software these days (busy with young kids). But if there is something simple I can do to re-enable things please let me know. Like if I need to bump a plugin version or re-upload or similar.

jurjanpaul 2025-10-11T15:19:15.157669Z

Thank you @chrisoakman for your response! I very much appreciate your effort to get smartMode supported. For me it worked good enough, being aware of the limitations VS Code poses w.r.t. synchronous post-processing. So, the experience was never really great, but a lot better than without it. 🙂

jurjanpaul 2025-10-11T15:22:19.674159Z

Anyway, I have no idea what can/needs to be done to bring it back into the Extensions Marketplace (together with the minor fork by 'kress95', https://gitlab.com/kress/vscode-parinfer-kress95), but it is good to know that the code survives, so it should be totally possible.

jurjanpaul 2025-10-11T15:23:38.624069Z

Anyway, definitely enjoy your time with your kids while they're still young!

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